Kissinger Associates

Our next guest says this summit marks a new balance as both countries contend with the intensifying race around AI.

Here with us at Post 9 is Joshua Cooper-Ramos, former co-CEO and vice chairman of Kissinger Associates.

Chairman and CEO now at Sornay.

Should add also new book from Joshua titled Darwin's Lock, America, China and the Shared Future of Nations.

It comes ahead of the high-stakes summit between Presidents Trump and Xi Jinping in Washington.

Bob Hormats is vice chair at Kissinger Associates.

My view with China is that we're in a very competitive environment on AI, for sure.

We're not gonna slow down competition in terms of new models they're gonna develop.

But we do need to find ways of minimizing risk, minimizing risk with respect to rogue actors.

Chinese are worried about that, so are we, and minimizing risk, uh, with respect to a- autonomous activities by AI as the ki- kind we've seen that can be quite disastrous for both sides.

And Kissinger Associates' Bob Hormats.

China's Xi Jinping is expected to arrive in the US tomorrow.

Of course, there are individuals in positions of power, and we could look at many ways of identifying them.

David Rothkopf, who was the head of Kissinger & Associates for many years and a very important member of the global cabal, wrote back in 2007 about the superclass.

which he identified as 6,000 people who were able to act transnationally and be able to basically enact any agenda across national boundaries.

They weren't necessarily people in government.

That's the only thing I see constructive here.

Paul Sweeney with Robert Hormats of Kissinger Associates.

Bob, we're now, boy, seven months plus in Iran.

Given your experience in five different A- American administrations, how do we get out of this? How do we kinda minimize the damage here? W- what's your view?

TJ, you and I have talked about it.

Joshua was the chairman of Kissinger Associates for about 15 years and has lived in China for about 20 years and really has a fingertip sensitivity of China and the Chinese government.

And of course, being with Kissinger, he's had the opportunity to meet all the people, not only who were in power before, but the kids who are his age, or the young people who are his age, are now in the power structure of China.

It is a terrific book.

The evidence he presented was never specifically itemized in the commission report.

And he also even complained that many of the survivors weren't even called to testify, which after talking to Richard Gage and and just having more and more conversations about the 9-11 Commission, which was connected directly to Henry Kissinger's consulting firm.

I mean, this is just what are we doing? You know, I mean, it's just the 9-11 Commission was established November 2002.

This was established by President George Bush, who initially appointed none other than Henry Kissinger to head the commission.

So this Christopher Hitchens article, it did catch my eye and I thought it was worthwhile because he could very, very efficiently coin a phrase.

I can say that and make some vital points in that way.

And so, but down in the articles, later in the article, he points to Kissinger's consulting firm, Kissinger Associates, and he describes it as a privately held concern that does not publish a client list and that compels its clients to sign confidentiality agreements.

Nonetheless, it has been established that Kissinger's business dealings with say the Chinese communist leadership have closely matched his public pronouncements on such things as the massacre of Chinese students.

So the fact that he was a special assistant to Alexander Haig is hugely significant.

He went to work for Kissinger at Kissinger and Associates.

And this is important because Kissinger, when he set up at Harvard, his International Institute NGO, it was later outed as a CIA front.

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